On 03/02/2015 10:46 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Even if I look directly at the port and it is numbered, I am unable to work out which bizarro name it is likely to have. Except for desktops and laptops (which both typically have only one interface), I always rename to ethX.
Well I guess that's what permanent markers were invented for. Regardless of name scheme chosen, you don't want to be opening the case, to check chip-set. So I do that once, get out pen, done.
At least we only have a few fake (software) adaptors to ignore. The last time I ran ipconfig in a windows box I was agast.